Choice In Community Living

This session is from a manager’s perspective when setting up a new service. It will cover how plans can be put in place to include opportunities to use supported decision making, overcoming road blocks in the process, and recruiting and training staff.

Supported Decision Making and Mental Health Workshop

Practical discussion aimed at family and whanau, to talk about how to support someone who is at a particularly vulnerable point in their life and how to utilise perhaps an advance directive, a Health and Disability Advocate, or Legal Aid.

Using Visual Supports to Assist Supported Decision Making

Presenter : Ann Smaill, General Manager, TalkLink Trust

Tools to assist disabled people and people with experience of dementia to make decisions. These tools also provide an effective way to document the decisions made. This session will include a demonstration and discussion around how visual strategies can be used, and by who.

Tautua

Vaka Tautua discuss the way Pacific people work collectively to support family members with disabilities. They will use their experience as a DIAS provider; and talk about their financial capability programme which helps the whole family to work together to manage money. This programme has helped families to work together to improve their financial situation which has in turn made a big difference to the well-being of the family.